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The Human Experience — Test

Question 4 • English Language Arts 10

Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion?

Answer
A
“Each night she lay down in pain and rose”
B
“And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
C
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”
D
“of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”

Explanation

An allusion is an indirect reference to a person, event, or work outside the poem. “Diego” refers to Diego Rivera, the Mexican artist and Frida Kahlo’s husband, whose relationship with her is part of the poem’s subject. The quotation in choice C makes that reference, so it contains an allusion.

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